Good choice for Marill, though. We have so many pure Water types, and there's not really anything that distinguishes it from others (Huge Power is nice though). Giving it the Fairy type makes it more unique.

Gallade will almost certainly stay the same, so I'd be willing to bet that kirlia won't be fairy type (though they will start learning fairy attacks) so that it becomes a choice between fairy or fighting type added.

I feel like Gardevoir needed it. When Gallade came out, everyone wanted to use him because he had an advantage over Gardevoir, now the playing fields are even, PLUS People will want to use Gardevoir because they want to experience the new Fairy type.

That's a good point actually, I mean marill is just a water mouse but could be going of being an undine or some such, as for Gardevoir it makes sense as well being the fair folk or the fey, I wonder what will happen to gallade

I understand gardevoir. With the fork between Gardevoir and Gallade, it makes sense to diverge into either Psychic/Fairy, or Psychic/Fighting instead of plain Psychic, or Psychic fighting. I'd bet fairy and fighting will have some interesting type match ups.

Are you though? The way I see it, people will only use fairy to counter dragons. Ice still does 2x damage to most dragons so it'll be the better option and thus far the only fairy pokemon are too slow to deal with a salamence packing a choice banded brick break. Granted you could switch in on an outrage (assuming that rumor about fairies being immune to dragon attacks is true) and set up, but chances are you'll have to deal with any other attack that'll easily beat them. I'm honestly hoping for some fast fairy sweepers or even fairy walls to add to my team, and I want to know about the rest of their effectiveness against other types.

Supposedly fairy types will also be immune to dragon attacks and will be weak to poison and steel. Seems like they're trying to balance the game a little more but honestly I like that certain types are generally superior to others.

I don't, we definitely need some more balance with types. Ice is unusable defensively thanks to it massive amount of weaknesses only one resistance (to itself), Poison is decent defensively but useless offensively, etc.

I hope they make Electric weak to Fairy and Ice strong against it, that'll help shore up some unbalances among types.

I never have been a fan of perfect balance and dual typing allows every type to have strong representatives. Cloyster is an ice type boss in OU and Toxicroak is also pretty good in OU. Kyurem-White does pretty well in Ubers and unfortunately there isn't really a poison uber to use an an example of a solid pokemon of that type. The inequality among types creates underdogs and heroes in my eyes and it seems more realistic to me.

I'm not saying that you can't have good Pokemon of certain types, but it does suck when some types are way weaker than others.

Ice is an amazing offensive type, and it's pretty much required for Dragons (up until now, at least, with the new Fairy type). But it's so fragile. I run a Hail team, so I know how good Ice can be, but it's kind of annoying to rely on dual types for any kind of resistance, and pure Ice types get destroyed fast. That's why a lot of people just run Ice type moves on Pokemon of other types, they get the great offense without the terrible defense. As for Poison, it has the opposite problem. It's a good defense type and gives some rare resistances, but it's only super effective against Grass, which already has too many weaknesses, making it a pretty useless attacking type. Toxicroak's good, but not because he uses Poison type attacks. His Fighting type helps a lot, as does Dry Skin (extra Water immunity).

I mean, I do understand what you're saying, I just feel differently about it. To each his own.

I see your point. Unfortunately though, I think this only makes things worse for ice types. With a new type that's super effective against and immune to dragon, there won't be much need for ice types any more.

Ice is no longer the main dragon killer (though I don't think Fairy is immune to Dragon), but if Ice gains a resistance to Fairy, that second resistance could go a long way toward making Ice a better type. It's hard to say at this time, since we don't know the full spread of weakness/resistances to and against Fairy.

They have 2 weaknesses. Using dragons against dragons is just silly. Most dragons can learn electric type moves, eliminating the usefulness of most other things that can use dragon type moves (they are usually at least water or flying). Ice is an awful defensive type whereas dragon is a crazily good offensive. As I mentioned before they can learn an array of moves such as Thunder, Flamethrower and Stone Edge - some can even learn Pyschic or even Focus Blast. Anything with wings or a tail can learn Steel Wing/Iron tail. So they cover every weakness that Ice may have. There needs to be something to level out the playing field.

Well, we already got Gardevoir, Jigglypuff, and Marill announced as having their types reclassified. Hopefully there are others, and these are my predictions:

With the new move Moonblast, and with Jigglypuff getting the new type, it would seem that Fairy type is strongly related to the Moon. Clefairy/Clefable would be an obvious choice for Fairy type (I'd be very surprised if CleFAIRY isn't Fairy), and we might see other Pokemon that evolve via Moon Stone being Fairy type.

Nidoqueen and Nidoking evolve from Moon Stone, but they're already dual typed and that's unlikely to change, so they probably won't change type. Delcatty (evolution of Skitty) seems like it could easily become Fairy type, though. Munna also evolves via Moon Stone, but Musharna doesn't seem like it would become Fairy type.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Illumise and Volbeat become Bug/Fairy dual types.

I read that Pokemon like Jigglypuff will be reclassified as Fairy Type. With Fairy Types being strong against Dragon Types, that means that Jigglypuff will have a type advantage over Dratini and Dragonite.

I also read that Marill will be reclassified as Fairy Type, so it'll be Water and Fairy. This will mean it'll have a type advantage over the Fire and Dragon type Reshiram. Marill will be more powerful than Reshiram. And the Ground and Dragon types Gible, Gabite and Garchomp. All of a sudden, Marill is looking a lot cooler.